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What is ANTLR? ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition), is an ALL(*) parser generator. In layman’s terms, Antlr, creates parsers in a number of languages (Go, Java, C, C#, Javascript), that can process text or binary input. The generated parser provides a callback interface to parse the input in an event-driven manner, which can be used as-is, or used to build parse trees (a data structure representing the input). ANTLR is used by a number of popular projects, e.g Hive and Pig use it to parse Hadoop queries, Oracle and NetBeans uses it for their IDEs, and Twitter even uses it to understand search queries.

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In this post, I will tell a story of how I had to build a custom JSON unmarshaler for the needs of a GraphQL client library in Go. I’ll start with the history of how everything started, build motivation for why a custom JSON marshaler was truly needed, and then describe how it was implemented. This is going to be a long journey, so strap yourself in, and here we go!

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One of the common criticisms of the GOPATH is that it is hard to create isolated development environments without resorting to hacks, bash scripts, multiple GOPATH settings, or other trickery. Generally, I don’t often have too many problems with GOPATH, but when I do they are frustrating and hard to figure out. An example: Your dependency manager copies deps from your GOPATH into your project’s vendor folder. But the dependency it copies is your fork, not the upstream, so the vendored package isn’t what you expected.

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I had always been a bit confused as to how the crypto/rand package and the math/rand package were related, or how they were expected to work (together). Is this something that everyone else already grokked, or is that just my impostor syndrome talking? Well, one day I decided to see if I could defeat my ignorance, and this blog post is the result of that investigation. The math One If you’ve ever poked around in the math/rand package, you might agree that it presents a fairly convenient API.

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Chat tools have been good friends of developers. On chat tools we share our thoughts, problems, solutions, jokes, and pretty much everything we do as software engineers. And when some kind of tasks can be done in the extension of daily chat conversation, chat becomes even more comfortable yet powerful place to stay. That is why I think many developers eager to customize their chat experience with bot frameworks. In this article I am going to introduce a new golang-based bot framework, go-sarah, along with its notable characteristics and components.

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A regular hash function turns a key (a string or a number) into an integer. Most people will know them as either the cryptographic hash functions (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, etc) or their smaller non-cryptographic counterparts frequently encountered in hash tables (the map keyword in Go). Collisions, where two input values hash to the same integer, can be an annoyance in hash tables and disastrous in cryptography. Collisions can happen with any standard hash function and any number of keys.

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Make is an old tool that you can use today to help get everyone on your team on the same page, and make it easy for new contributors to your project to get started. In some cases Make can help you avoid unnecessary work! Let’s see how you can integrate Make into your development workflow. For this example, we are going to pretend our application uses protocol buffers to send data back and forth.

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Introduction This article will talk about how to connect a GopherJS frontend to a Go backend. If you haven’t heard about GopherJS before, it’s an open source Go-to-JavaScript transpiler, allowing us to write Go code and run it in the browser. I recommend taking a look at the official GitHub repo and Dmitri Shuralyov’s DotGo presentation Go in the browser for a deeper introduction. Writing GopherJS apps is great fun and lets us avoid writing JavaScript and all the problems associated with it.

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It’s November, and once again our thoughts drift towards the holidays and the awesome blog posts that arrive as gifts to you in the Gopher Academy Blog. We’d love to have YOUR contributions this year so we’re sending out our request for people to sign up for a blog post in December. It’s a fun process, and you’ll have help and support from editors along the way. If you’re ready to write a post for our Advent series, you can signup online.